Raising and conveying water



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEioE.

J. I. COX AND S. P. COX, OF SHIPPENSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAISING- ANI) CONVEYING WATER.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 6,257, dated April 3, 1849.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, J. I. Cox and S. P. Cox, of Shippensburg, in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful improvement on an apparatus for conveying water from a well to a building, and which apparatus, we name a Hydralator; and we hereby do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The nature and principle of this invention is to send a bucket from a house on an inclined rail made of wire or stout rope and to have the bucket drop into the well to be filled with water, then drawn up again and carried back to the house up the inclined rail-the whole movements being directed by the unwinding and windingof the cord to which the bucket is attached, over a drum or pulley operated by a handle.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use our invent-ion, we will proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying perspective (linear) drawing, making a part of this specification. The red lines denote the interior, or back parts that are connected with the parts seen on the outside.

A, is the well.

B, is a post set at the back or behind the well.

O, is a horizontal arm on post B, and D, is an upright rod on the end of the said horizontal arm.

E E, is a frame in the building, either placed in the inside at the window, or on the piazza, either on the lower story .or upper story as the case may be. This frame is composed of two upright square posts or stakes joined at the top by a cap or cross piece F, and secured together by any of the known ways.

G, is a large pulley lixed between E, E, on an axle H, which axle has its bearings on the two posts. I, is an axle handle to turn the pulley G.

J, J, is an inclined rail made of strong wire, or rope, or any other suitable material. This rail is irmly secured at each end, to B, at the lower end and E at the upper end.

K, K, are two similar spring cams made of wire, or wood, (wood is better than wire). These spring cams are fixed, the one on the top of B, and the other on F, the cap piece of the stationary pulley frame. (The office most convenient, as a small and large apparatus will operate equally well according to the size of the bucket used.

W3 73 are two cap or top pieces, or it may be made of one piece of wood only it mustbe sloped or tapered from about the middle where it or they 73 Vg are secured by nails or screws to the upright pieces TV1 TV1.

W2 VP lare four braces. They are attached to the upright pieces and to the two caps and where they are united above to the caps, between every two braces, there is inserted a cross block. The caps, cross blocks and braces are therefore all secured together and the space between the upright pieces and the braces is for pulleys, L, L, which have grooves around them at the middle to keep them from slipping off the rail J, J. These pulleys, or they be properly termed grooved rollers, sit upon ,the rail like the wheels of a railroad truck, but lapping the rail on each side.

M, is another pulley or roller with its axis passing through and between W1 Vl and the ends of its axis fixed in the inside of the said two upright pieces. This roller is the bucket rope pulley. Over it passes the bucket rope N, N. The bucket rope should be guided on the middle of M, by passing through an eye formed of wire, which can be connected to the two upright pieces 71 Wl extending across in front of the rope pulley.

O, is the bucket. It has secured to its lip four small upright stakes l, 2, 3, et, on t-he top of which is a ring P, and then there are two rods secured on the top of P horizontally crossing one vanother forming an X` and where they cross one another, the bucket rope is fastened to them in any of the known ways.

Q, is a cross head cam rod. It is made of wood or wire and straps over the top of the carrier and passes down on both sides of the upright pieces W1 W1, and crosses below above the ring P. This cross head cam rod is made to move up and down by 'the action of the cross pieces on the ring o" the bucket, therefore if the rope is wound up tight on the pulley Q will be lifted up till the ring P touches the lower ends of W1 W1. Q is kept from shifting laterally by a guide eye (a).

R is a spring fork. Itis made of wire and secured to an aXis S, which passes through asmall shoulder (c) shaped like a bracket and fastened between 71 W1.

T is a wire spring with a coil over an axis under the cap pieces W3 73 and extending downward by a hcok on its lower end catching into the bridal head of the fork R at The tension of this spring is downward and outward, throwing out the bridal or top of R, and giving its prongs always an inward tension or direction, which can be increased byextending the length of R from the aXis S, to the turn of the prongs or by the twisting of the eye of the spring fork, through which the axis S, passes. The spring fork holds up the bucket to and in the carrier. l/Vere it not for this, the bucket O would drop down upon the ground before the carrier slides down upon the rail above the well.

Operation: When all the proper length of the bucket rope (which is necessary for that purpose) is wound up on the pulley so as to bring the carrier up to the top of the inclined` rail, the spring cani K, on t-he top of the frame E, E, will catch into Z1L an oblong slit or hole in the top of 73, which will hold the carrier fast at the upper end of the rail. When it is desired to send the carrier for water, a turn of the pulley will make the top of the bucket to drive up Q, and then K, will be pushed out of Z1 when the carrier will descend rapidly on the rail J, J, and whenever the bucket reaches to the desired point above the well, D, will force back the top of the spring fork R, when the crooked prongs will be thrown out from the ring P, of the bucket which will then descend (by a proper weightI on the bottom of the bucket) down into the well and be filled with water. Vhen the carrier has reached the bottom of the rail, the spring cam K, will catch into Z2 and retain the carrier above the wellA The object of this is to allow the bucket rope f to be wound up on the pulley Gr, until the bucket is lifted up out of the well and until vis then thrust out of Z2 and the carrier begins to ascend the inclined rail. The top of R, is then relieved from the pressure of D, when the prongs catch into the ring P, and secure the bucket to the carrier, and then both bucket and carrier ascend together to the upper end of the rail by winding the rope N, on the pulley G, when the spring cam K, catches into Z1 and the carrier held fast until the water is taken out of the bucket, by releasing thebucket from the spring fork R.

Having thus described our invent-ion, we claiml. The combination of the spring cams K, K, with the cap pieces of the carrier, the slide Q and the bucket top for holding and releasing the carrier2 as set forth.

2. Ve also claim the spring fork R, in combination with the bucket ring P,Yand the upright rod or arm D, to hold and release the bucket, and to catch again into the ring of the bucket at proper times, substantially as herein described and for the purpose set forth.

J OHN I. COX. SAMUEL P. COX.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH P. NEVIN, BENJAMIN DUKE. 

